Better answers, faster, the moment you need them.

Getting your documents onto a private box you own (that's Forge) means your team can search them. But search isn't understanding. The answer to a real question — "how do we handle a warranty claim on a job we subbed out three years ago?" — is spread across a contract, an email, and an SOP, and no keyword pulls it together. Cipher is the layer that does: it reads how your knowledge connects and reasons out the answer.

Cipher builds a knowledge graph over your data and retrieves by MEANING, not just matching words — blending semantic search, your structured records, and recency, then re-ranking so the best answer surfaces first. It routes each question to only the knowledge that matters, answers with citations, and governs itself: every fact has a freshness posture and a promotion path, contradictions get caught, and stale or conflicting information never reaches your team. Optionally, we fine-tune a model to your business so it speaks your language natively. The result is an answer you can act on — and trust.

• Drakon Forge gives your data a home you own — raw documents and records loaded onto private hardware in your building, with basic search. Sovereign, but literal.
• Drakon Cipher is the intelligence on top — the reasoning, the governance, the understanding of how everything connects. This is the part competitors can't copy.

Cipher needs an AI to run on: run it on Forge (owned, in your building, nothing leaves) or on managed models to start (still private, no hardware yet). Own the vault, add the mind, run the business — each sold on its own, or bundled to save.

Companies whose expertise is trapped in documents and long-tenured people — contractors, firms, operators with years of jobs, SOPs, and hard-won answers a new hire can't absorb fast. If onboarding takes months because "you just have to know where things are," Cipher is the fix.

• A knowledge graph + semantic index over your data — understanding, not keyword match.
• Reasoned answers with citations — the answer AND where it came from.
• Self-governing freshness — promotion, contradiction detection, staleness control, so the brain never serves an out-of-date or conflicting answer.
• Question routing — it consults only the knowledge a question actually touches.
• Optional fine-tuning — a model tuned to your business's language and patterns.
• Ongoing curation so the brain stays current as new jobs and docs land.
• Private by construction: your knowledge never trains anyone else's cloud.

From $15,000 to build, structure, and govern your brain, plus $4,500/mo managed (curation, freshness governance, hosting or on-Forge operation, and improvements). Scoped to the size and complexity of your knowledge — from what your Operations Audit finds.

Each stands on its own — buy exactly what you need. Or combine them and the quote comes down:

• Forge + Cipher — 15% off the combined quote. The vault plus the mind: a private AI that truly understands your business, on hardware you own.
• Forge + Cipher + Aegis — 20% off the combined quote. The full sovereign stack — vault, mind, and the operating layer your business runs from.

Discounts apply to the combined custom quote, not to published floors. Scoped from what your Operations Audit finds.